The Potanin Glacier is the longest glacier in Mongolia, it stretches about 14 kilometres and located through in the Altai Tavan Bogd mountain in Altai Mountains.[1] The glacier is named after explorer Grigory Potanin.
| Potanin Glacier | |
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  Location in Mongolia | |
| Type | Mountain glacier |
| Location | Ulaankhus District, Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia |
| Coordinates | 49°08′24″N 87°55′12″E / 49.14000°N 87.92000°E |
As with many other glaciers around the world, the Potanin Glacier is gradually decreasing in size. Over a 6-year period of observation, September 2003 to September 2009, it retreated by about 90 meters, thus recording an average retreat rate of 15 m/year. It also has become thinner, especially in its lower parts; the average thinning rate of 2.6 m/year has been measured over 2004–2009.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Tavan Bogd". tomongolia.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
- ^ Krumwiede et al. 2014, p. 505
Sources
edit- Krumwiede, Brandon S.; Kamp, Ulrich; Leonard, Gregory J.; Kargel, Jeffrey S.; Dashtseren, Avirmed; Walther, Michael (2014), "Recent Glacier Changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Case Studies from Munkh Khairkhan and Tavan Bogd", in Kargel, Jeffrey Stuart (ed.), Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, Springer-Praxis series in geophysics, Springer, pp. 481–509, ISBN 3540798188
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